Bibliography on Vancouver Lake Watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek
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Bibliography 1900-50	Bibliography 1951-60	Bibliography 1961-70	Bibliography 1971-80	Bibliography 1981-90	Bibliography 1991-Present

Bibliography of Vancouver Lake watershed, including Burnt Bridge Creek, Flushing Channel, Lake River, and Salmon Creek

A history of restoration efforts for Vancouver Lake

Regional Planning Council of Clark County. 1978. Water Quality Management Plan [208 plan].

The Clark County Clean Water Program was initiated in February 1976 to develop implementable solutions to the remaining water pollution problems in the County. The three immediate goals have been:

1. Restoration of Vancouver Lake;
2. Control of urban drainage in the Burnt Bridge Creek Drainage basin; and
3. Correction of non-point pollution sources.

Separate reports have been prepared which deal with the first two goals. Therefore, this report deals mainly with the correction of non-point pollution.

Findings

Most of the major streams and lakes in southern Clark County are impacted by non-point pollution. None of the waters tested regularly meet the State Water Quality Standards. Though the streams in the rural aras are generally polluted to some degree by animal wastes and septic tank drainage, the urban streams are the most polluted in the county. The worst polluted are Burnt Bridge Creek, the storm sewers and ditches in the Lakeshore area which discharge into Vancouver Lake, Vancouver Lake, Cougar Creek and Lower Salmon Creek. The principal pollution sources in these urban areas are urban runoff--storm runoff from roads, parking lots, commercial and industrial developments and subdivisions--septic tank drainage and runoff from construction clearing and grading. The cumulative impact of these pollution sources makes these streams and many others unfit for human contact. These conditions prompted the Southwest Washington Health District in the summer of 1977 to post its first pollution warnings along Burnt Bridge and Salmon Creeks. Fishery habitat has also been degraded by many of these pollution problems.

Salmon Creek and its tributaries have shown rapidly declining water quality in the last few years. Many of the small tributaries are highly polluted and have a definite effect on Salmon Creek. Only an aggressive pollution control program can hope to reverse this water quality decline.

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